MIT student is arrested at gunpoint

Yeah

Maybe you haven't been to an airport in like 20 years, are being deliberately obtuse, or you are her protege'.
Either way. good call.

First...those LED sneakers are a common sight EVERYWHERE. Second...they are just sneakers with LED lights. They are not altered with visible circut boards, wires & putty.

What about the putty?

well, to be fair I think the putty was in her hand.
Even so, I still find it hard to comprehend how anyone could not see the similarities between that set-up and a bombers rig.

I've learned an important lesson here.
As long as you put little lights on your suicide vest no one will ever suspect you.

I've read conflicting articles....one stating that it was in her hand...the other saying it was fastened to the hoodie.

Like you said, though...either way...not a good combination of items to have with you in an airport these days.

You're looking at this from the perspective of people who read a lot of news. I guarantee I would never have looked at that as being remotely suspicious before I read about the whole Boston Mooninite thing (and I couldn't fathom the thought processes there either.)

And, really, since when is the big security push on people picking up their friends at the airport? I could understand more of this reaction if she'd tried to go through security or board a plane wearing it, but just asking directions to the pick up area?

I'm telling you guys... 10 years...

This is what we will be wearing to the airport to get through security:

Without the cape it would look ridiculous.

Damnit, I was supposed to wait ten years ?

the thing that I don't understand was that in the news report I saw, when asked about why she was wearing the hoodie in the airport she responded saying,"Its art". Was this girls intention to be some sort of performance display of her almost getting shot by the ignorant airport security or did she just think it looked nice?

The hell you say?

I've had the experience of having guns drawn on me twice by "authorities".
Once by campus security, the other by a SF city cop.

In the first scenario, I'd made a complete idiot out of myself. I was 17 and Kurt Cobain had shot himself. On the campus message boards, I posted a long post about how I found my personal success overwhelming, that I didn't know what I could do with all the money I had, followed by some nonsense about a blonde that kept fucking with my head. The part that resulted in campus security at my door with guns drawn, was me writing about how I just couldn't take it, and needed to blow my head off with a shotgun that was sitting in the bathroom. I even signed in Kurt Cobain junior.

Like I said, extremely idiotic and insensitive. Not something you'd expect a 4.0 student to be doing, but my sense of humor at that point was warped. I have learned that the "joke" was not funny. Not because of the very unpleasant experience of having campus security show up at my door with guns drawn.

Rather than press charges, etc, they gave me a long, long speech about how I need to keep that kind of creative humor to myself, and understood the reality that I was an oblivious moron at that stage of my life. With this girl, I would think the same kind of treatment is in order, whether it was a prank or not. Having guns drawn on her, probably snapped some sense into her. It really is upsetting.

As for the other occasion. I honestly didn't do anything at all. I parked my car, the window was down and next thing I know there is a gun barrel next to my face. Apparently, the genius cop believed that my big gulp sprite was a 40. He was embarrassed about, so followed that action up by making me and the 3 girls and 1 other guy in my car get out and stand against the car so he could search us. It appears that when these people fuck up, they like to do something to show they're competent at fucking up in totality. He almost ruined a good evening for us.

Double post madness.

I traveled with my bass amp head in a backpack and I got pulled over in the x-ray line, I had some effects with 9 Volts too, but come on, I don't see why they did all this crap when you got the fucking wands and metal detectors in the first place... I think they can tell the difference from having effing play-doh and C4...
The idiocy of this makes the girl look good and everyone else a dumbass...
When I first saw fake bomb I was expecting a thing with ACME on it and a detonator that you pushed down like the Coyote had, that's how a bomb is supposed to look, right?
I didn't even get a mean look...
Then again I'm glad they didn't harm this poor girl, there would have been hell to pay (unless they cover it up with the help of Faux Noise (fox news)